Public opening reception: Saturday, March 14, 2–4 p.m.

About the exhibition

Marian Penner Bancroft’s work is deeply rooted in photographic explorations of the imagination and the material world. These interface with colonial histories, migration, objects and identities, allowing contemplation of durations ranging from deep time to the ephemeral. 

Marian Penner Bancroft’s "Long Story" is an installation that brings together photographs, videos, and wall texts featuring both new works and related pieces created since 2000. These reflect the artist’s ongoing engagement with complex questions addressable through a careful examination of visual traces of human activity with reference to the natural world, providing viewers the possibility of considering their own stories in relationship to the spaces they inhabit.

About the artist

Marian Penner Bancroft is a Vancouver artist working primarily with photography, text, video, sculpture, and sound. She studied at the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr University) and Ryerson University (Toronto Metropolitan University) in Toronto. She is the recipient of the 2012 Audain Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Art in 2009 and is a Professor Emeritus at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Bancroft’s work is represented in numerous collections, including The National Gallery of Canada, The Vancouver Art Gallery, The Belkin Gallery, and Canada House, UK.

This exhibition is part of the 2026 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program.